Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
I’ve recently run into performance issues with my new SharePoint 2013 Preview development environment. A quick investigation in Task Manager highlight Memory usage as my issue. The culprit processes are Microsoft Office 2013 component. I see SharePoint 2013 is somehow behind my issue. What are these Microsoft Office 2013 components and why are they consuming... Continue Reading →
Scinaptic OnePlaceMail Release 6.3 has been launched this week with both the Enterprise Edition and free Express Edition now available to download. The focus of this release has been delivering greater performance, and improved usability and tighter integration with business workflows and line of business systems. New features include; Performance: increase of up to 95%... Continue Reading →
External content types are defined through XML files referred to as “BDC metadata models”. These BDC metadata models can be created in both SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio. The technique used to create the BDC metadata models determines the technique used to export it. Models created using Visual Studio can be exported directly through the... Continue Reading →
I was recently investigating some of the options with External Content Type (ECT) filters that you can setup in SharePoint Designer. In particular, the following 2 settings did not appear to make any difference if I enabled or disabled them. Is Default Use to create match list in external item picker At first I thought... Continue Reading →
According to forms submitted to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the Surface tablet will become available at the same time as Windows 8 (26th October 2012).
This article provides a brief introduction to how the OnePlaceMail Plugin API (Application Programming Interface) can be used to provide a user experience that is customized to your requirements and needs. This may include: a simplified user interface (with less options) tight integration with existing backend systems for looking up and setting SharePoint column metadata... Continue Reading →
Hot on the heels of the OnePlaceMail R6.2 release hear what the SharePoint community leaders have to say about it. What is OnePlaceMail? OnePlaceMail connects Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office and Windows Explorer to Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365. OnePlaceMail promotes the adoption of SharePoint as your enterprise information management and collaboration platform. Available in a... Continue Reading →
One of the pain points of having content stored in SharePoint is being able to easily access and use the content in your desktop applications. For example, you’re mid way through writing an email and you want to include a link to a file that you know is in SharePoint, better start up that browser... Continue Reading →
It’s official, Release 6.2 of OnePlaceMail has been launched and is available now for download. It’s been a busy few months here at Scinaptic getting this release ready, and we are excited to see how the new features are received. The new features in this release are primarily focused on making content stored in SharePoint... Continue Reading →
At Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference (in Toronto, Canada) Windows Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller announced that Windows 8 is on track to Release to Manufacturing (RTM) the first week of August, with general availability by the end of October.
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